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A key generator (key-gen) is a computer program that generates a product licensing key, such as a serial number, necessary to activate for use of a software application.

Keygens may be legitimately distributed by software manufacturers for licensing software in commercial environments where software has been licensed in bulk for an entire site or enterprise, or they may be distributed illegitimately in circumstances of copyright infringement or software piracy.

Product key on a Proof of License Certificate of Authenticity for Windows Vista Home Premium.

A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program.

It certifies that the copy of the program is original.

Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s) is an act of removing copy protection from a software.

Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack.

A crack would refer to any tool to enable breaking into a computer network or a software application.

Examples of cracks are: applying a patch or by creating reverse-engineered serial number generators known as keygens, thus bypassing software registration and payments or converting a trial/demo version of the software into fully-functioning software without paying for it.

Software cracking contributes to the rise of online piracy where pirated software is distributed to end-users through filesharing sites like BitTorrent, One click hosting (OCH), or via Usenet downloads, or by downloading bundles of the original software with cracks or keygens.

In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms.

A torrent file does not contain the content to be distributed; it only contains information about those files, such as their names, folder structure, sizes, and cryptographic hash values for verifying file integrity.

Torrent files are normally named with the extension ".torrent".

A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it.

This includes fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs, with such patches usually being called bugfixes or bug fixes.

Patches are often written to improve the functionality, usability, or performance of a program.

The majority of patches are provided by software vendors for operating system and application updates.